A leading Ukrainian-American writer on Askold Melnyczuk (born December 12, ) is an American writer whose publications include novels, essays, poems, memoir, and translations. Among his works are the novels What Is Told, Ambassador of the Dead, House of Widows and Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature.
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By Askold Melnyczuk. (Faber & Born in Irvington, New Jersey, Askold Melnyczuk is an accomplished writer whose roots trace back to Ukraine, where his parents sought refuge after fleeing the turmoil of World War II. Their journey from a refugee camp in Germany to the United States and the cinematographically bright stories he grew up with shaped the power of his storytelling.
Albert Einstein, vampire hunter? Biography. Melnyczuk has received a Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest grant in fiction, as well as the McGinnis Prize in fiction. His first novel was a New York Times Notable, his second was an LA Times Best Books of the Year selection, and the most recent was chosen by the American Libraries Association’s Booklist as an Editor’s Choice.
Askold Melnyczuk (Jorie Graham). Askold Melnyczuk is the founding editor of AGNI and contributes a series of essays called “Shadowboxing.” He is professor of creative writing at UMass Boston. Excerpts from his anti-memoir in progress have appeared recently in The Threepenny Review and Epiphany.
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Founder of Arrowsmith Press, in he received the George Garret Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from the Associated Writing Programs. His third novel, The House of Widows, was an Editor’s Choice selection of the American Library Association’s Booklist. 
Self-Control and Crime Over the Askold Melnyczuk’s book of stories, The Man Who Would Not Bow, will appear in He has published four novels which have variously been named a New York Times Notable, an LA Times Best Books of the Year, and an Editor’s Choice by the American Library Association’s Booklist.
A substantive, scrupulously researched life of Albert Einstein (born March 14, , Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, , Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.